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Love's Wishbone by Robert Pfeiffer are the poems of a father, a husband, a human, at midlife - melancholy, nostalgic, tinged with regret, yet ultimately hopeful for the future. These poems look backwards with nostalgia and regret, but also with fondness and forgiveness. They look forward with apprehension and fear, but also with hope. More than anything, Pfeiffer's poetry in Love's Wishbone is about trying to find meaning in moments before it'...

Notes From Paradise takes you on a journey through several decades of musical, social and personal events in the life of veteran poet Elaine Heveron. Notes from Paradise reminds us that the height of the day, like laughter, tears, or falling hard for someone new, always comes unexpectedly. Elaine uses what her family knows as "Heveron humor" to see things from the side door you almost forgot was there. She shares her love of music, being in lo...

Say Anything, the fifth book of poetry and prose from Lee Rossi, captures insights and unresolvable contradictions as he shifts from a social exterior reality to an inner psychological reality, from a world of fact and idea, to a world of nuance and shadow. Filled with oxymoron and paradox, the poems and prose gleam like pieces of colored glass in a kaleidoscope, with changing facets and shifting viewpoints.

This latest work of veteran poet Marian Kaplun Shapiro is titled Upbringing because it confronts and explores issues surrounding being a child and growing up. Many poems present a moment in time through the eyes of a child, showing the innocence and confusion of children maneuvering in an adult world. What is most unique is the presentation of ideas through a preponderance of visuals intermixed with words to create a new era of visual poetry. ...

Standing in the Shadows of Freedom presents the poetic work of Nicole Lanier Montez, highlighting current emotional and social issues. This passionate expression is into three parts: Tears in the Wind, Letters from the Heart, and No Time to Waste. A poem may beckon the reader to complete a page, reflect on the unresolved past, be active in the present, or reach into the future. Unique and timely, her perspective gives insight into where we sta...

Marriages and Other Dilemmas, by Kitty Beer, balances 16 short stories with a 50 page memoir. With heroines of every age, the stories are dynamic, dark, sexy, and humorous, and the frank and open memoir adds insight to the experience. In the stories, she explores consequential events in the lives of ordinary people, revealing her love for life and the idiosyncrasies that make life profoundly interesting. Crisp writing and a jaunty tone take th...

Richard R. Troxell's book Short Stories in a Long Journey blends his personal story with the life of an activist for ending and preventing homelessness. This book highlights the structural defects in our system and laws and proposes common-sense economic solutions to the problems of homelessness and substance abuse, such as the Universal Living Wage to address income inequality, a modest liquor surcharge to finance substance treatment, and a b...

Images in the Clouds: reading the sky is a collection of poems and images debuting Maria Wells' poetry, following her career in academia. Some poems are memories of places and people from her life and travels, some are pure fantasy and imagination. She presents jewels from her treasure trunk with verse, colored photos and artwork, on a voyage to inner and outer worlds, going forward and back in time. The poems speak in detail of a deeply felt ...

Manhattan, 1964: No one suspects David Greenberg is also David Asher, the successful artist who, in the blink of an eye, can forever capture what he sees. Believing his father is Mob connected, he searches for evidence to put him away. But soon, rogue agents of the government discover David's secret ability and track his every move. Aided by his fiancée and two devoted friends, David faces the wrath of his father, two inquisitive FBI agents, a...

In Providencia, Carlotta sells her store to a Muslim, Bahir Ahmed. Fr. Jake arranges to meet Ahmed and finds out he is from Albuquerque, married with a wife and two children, and his father is Imam at the Islamic Center in town. At Mass, Fr. Jake asks his parishioners to be tolerant to the new store owners, as Jesus was to strangers. Fr. Jake helps Cynthia Plow organize a community meeting to teach residents more about the Islamic religion, an...

At the Edge of the Cliff: poems, by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, experiments with visual form and edgy content to disrupt fundamental givens and generate transformative experiences. At her poetic peak, Shapiro uses word drawings that go beyond mere words to touch extremes of feeling and jar the subconscious. Shapiro makes each poem an experiment, leading a beautiful and challenging climb to the edge. "A book of poetry and drawings that explore emoti...

Gypsy Spirit contains a lifelong collection of published short stories, flash stories, essays, commentaries and memoirs of Ute Carson. Her daughter, grandson and son-in-law add a plethora of art and photos in this collective family adventure. These vivid stories reveal of a life rich in history, from a woman who survived World War II horrors in early life to celebrate a life full of tenderness and joy. The captivating stories follow Ute Carson...

A Manhattan corporate attorney, with career and marriage in turmoil, drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island. As he struggles to put his life back together, he meets a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land threatened with development, a fight that eventually endangers her life. The tension between past and present comes alive as he finds new meaning in l...

In The Talking Cure, physician-poet Jack Coulehan provides new poems plus a selection of work from six other books. His work explores the mysterious tension between tenderness and steadiness in medical practice plumbing into life's essential minutiae: the observed moment, the healing gesture, the internal response. These poems look beyond the difficulties of physical existence to see the worth and holiness of the individual. With directness, p...

In All My Parents: Seeking a Sense of Self in Family, Nancy Henderson-James contemplates the impact of her ancestors and descendents on her relationship to family. She delves into the lives of parents and grandparents and how their personality traits and passions affected her. When she married at 23, her husband's family also influenced her and their children, who at times stepped in to teach her how to be a mother. The arrival of her grandchi...

A devastating blow in Carly Brennan's life propels her on a rugged journey away from the past and into a new way of living. The title words "Coming To Be" comes from Plato: "Nothing ever is, but everything is always coming to be." When Carly is caught off guard by an unexpected divorce, her two best friends from college days and the wisdom of her mother guide her to discover her capacity to accept exciting opportunities and achieve unimaginabl...

Victoria's War is a work of historical fiction about 19-year-old Victoria Darski, a Polish Catholic woman sold into slavery during the Nazi occupation of Europe, and Etta Tod, the 20-year-old deaf daughter of a German baker who buys Victoria. Poland, 1939: Eager to study literature at the University of Warsaw, Victoria waits with bags packed. But Hitler invades Poland and classes are canceled. German officers burst into her family's home, and ...

The poems in Half-Dreaming, Douglas Nordfors' beautiful new book, fly like birds around twin flagpoles-the abstract vs. the concrete, the self as stable vs. the self as always in the process of creating itself, what is knowable about the world vs. what is, and always will be, mystery. Ruminative, breathtaking in their associative leaps, these poems see and feel with such burning intensity that they draw us, spellbound, into their fire. Over ma...

In America Abroad: An Epic of Discovery, David Radavich launches his most ambitious expedition to date. Crossing continents and spanning centuries, this sequence traces historical trajectories from the Age of Exploration to the present. Indeed, we hear echoes of Whitman in its sweep and grandeur. Organized geographically, sections recount the "discovery" of the "New World" and exploration of the American West, as well as sojourns to the Arctic...

My Mother's Daughter is a fast-paced, page-turning historical fiction about a mother's daughters, set in an era of southern plantations and slavery. Each woman finds her own way to develop unsuspected inner strengths and the will to change from who they are to who they choose to be. -Nancy King, author of Opening Gates and other novels at www.nancykingstories.com From slavery through abolition and women's suffrage, Thaddeus' sweeping story of ...